Publicación: "Ghosting emotions": An open door for navigating intimacy in contemporary Spain
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2024
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Fernández García, Sandra
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Slovene Anthropological Society
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Ghosting has mostly been associated with app-dating. However, our research addresses “ghosting” as a broader eld of face-to-face avoidance practices. The article
highlights the role of avoidance in emotional practices to maintain ongoing relationships. In the case of contemporary Spain, the structural uncertainty that permeates intimate relationships – related to neoliberalism’s emphasis on individualism in the shaping of subjectivities – is reinforced by the tension in the coexistence
of romantic and conuent models of love, which translates into a lack of scripts
when it comes to dealing with intimacy. Drawing on the results of an ethnographic
research project based on interviews with adults in the city of Madrid, we examine
the ways in which social actors adapt their behavior to the context through what
we have called “ghosting emotions.” This analytical tool accounts for those individual strategies, which, as a result of an exercise of emotional reexivity, limit relationality by avoiding certain social practices in the shaping of intimacy. Thus, this
article shows the concrete processes through which actors develop patterns shaping structural dimensions in contemporary intimacies when facing uncertainties.
To safeguard individuality within relationships, these practices function as a means
of enhancing a sense of control by leaving “an open door”
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The registered version was first published in “Anthropological Notebooks, 30(1), 1-27", is available online at the publisher's website: https://anthropological-notebooks.zrc-sazu.si/Notebooks/article/view/601
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emotions, intimacy, love, ghosting, neoliberal emotional regime
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'Fernández García, S. and Sánchez Valle, Francisco (2024). "Ghosting emotions": An open door for navigating intimacy in contemporary Spain. Anthropological Notebooks, 30(1), 1-27. https://anthropological-notebooks.zrc-sazu.si/Notebooks/article/view/601
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filosofía
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Antropología Social y Cultural